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by tsax 12y ago
It was an actual charge for a specific route (e.g. SFO - JFK). I couldn't later claim that it was for SFO - YYZ.
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by tsax 12y ago
The weird part was that I was booking the flight sitting at home from my personal laptop. In short, my modal usage of the credit card for online shopping.
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by tsax 12y ago
Yes if the transaction was 'on hold' it may have been fine. The problem occurred because the transaction went thru on the sales page, but was then blocked by Amex before the airline could send a confirmation, and then there was no
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by tsax 12y ago
I don't mind the false positive. It's just that people should be compensated for it, especially if the rate is low. It's just good business sense. If the bank can eat up actual fraud charges, why should it not eat false posit
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by tsax 12y ago
I come from a long line of docs, though I'm a software dev. Let me tell you that the vast majority of patients can easily be sorted into these pre-formed category bins. Rare conditions are rare by definition. Most of medicine is dreary
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by tsax 12y ago
I suffered from Amex's fraud detection algorithm recently when trying to book a discount airfare. There was 1 ticket left, I tried paying for it, and Amex blocked the charge, and by the time I tried it again (90 seconds or so), the tic
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by tsax 12y ago
Yeah I realize that and it's broken. There's clearly a use case that the LED served between ZERO interruptions and buzzing/ringing.
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by tsax 12y ago
Working hard is a necessary but not sufficient condition for success. Like Patrick said, working very hard at digging ditches is not going to land you in a C-suite, obviously, but very few people end up successful WITHOUT working hard.
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by tsax 12y ago
That's tautological. He's lucky because he's lucky. But if you meant that genetic inheritance plays a large role in success, then obviously I agree.
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by tsax 12y ago
The very reason they fund 100 and hope for 1 is that all the analysis and data in the world have not helped narrow likely success criteria beyond 'fund the team.' What's stopping you from starting a VC fund that's REALLY
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by tsax 12y ago
Very cool.
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by tsax 12y ago
Android Lollipop also broke the led indicator at the bottom of my Nexus 5. I can no longer count on it to reliably indicate if I have messages/emails pending on silent mode.
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by tsax 12y ago
Check out the National Crime Victimization Survey which corroborates the conviction stats.
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by tsax 12y ago
Lol how do you think 'slavs' got their name? Have you looked at the Arab and Ottoman slave trade?
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by tsax 12y ago
Let me just remind everyone here that in India, it's easy to falsify most documents, so relying on some sort of governmental agency for background is itself negligence. I would expect better from Uber knowing how ruthless they are and
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by tsax 12y ago
Thanks for this. Looks like gold.
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by tsax 12y ago
How about w.r.t. the 'biggest bang for the buck'?
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by tsax 12y ago
So many functional languages. Which one to learn? Haskell? OCaml? F#? Scheme? Common Lisp? Clojure?
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by tsax 12y ago
Kinda off-topic but I instantly pattern matched the site UI to Heroku. Anyone else feel the same?
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by tsax 12y ago
I bought a couple winter coats from them. BEWARE of the size, as obvious as it sounds, but I can often wear Medium or even Small sized clothes at H&M and Zara, so I picked 'Large' on Aliexpress and I swear it would be an Extra
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Tax Consequences of Net Neutrality(techliberation.com)
1 points by tsax 12y ago|0 comments
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A New Version Control System for a Niche Use Case(esr.ibiblio.org)
1 points by tsax 12y ago|0 comments
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by tsax 12y ago
Why is this downvoted? Would the author not like to know if a commenter purchased his work?
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by tsax 12y ago
Bought!
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Is Common Lisp Dead? Not Quite(facebook.com)
1 points by tsax 12y ago|0 comments
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by tsax 12y ago
Huh? This looks like a laundry list of everything, not a specific request.
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by tsax 12y ago
Sweet though I'm not a mobile dev.
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by tsax 12y ago
I'm really impressed by all these polished launch pages that Show HN folks design. Lack of such is an admittedly lame reason why I refrain from posting projects on HN.
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Why is College so Expensive These Days?(cato.org)
2 points by tsax 12y ago|0 comments
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by tsax 12y ago
You must be a neoliberal, Koch-funded corporate stooge, amirite? Everyone knows private companies can't run essential services.

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